Friday’s Junior Report

The attention span of a junior hockey fan can be short at this time of the year. Canada’s national team selection camp is underway, trading periods and deadlines are approaching, and there is the odd chance that a few players currently in the American Hockey League will be coming back to the junior ranks after the holidays. These are a few of things we are trying to sort out after the jump.

The standings are here, and the roundup is here. The schedule for Friday is as follows: Plymouth at Guelph, Barrie at Kingston, Owen Sound at Kitchener, Belleville at London, Niagara at Mississauga, Oshawa at Ottawa, Erie at Sarnia, Saginaw at Sault Ste. Marie, Brampton at Sudbury. In league notes, Peter Ruicci of The Sault Star says the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds have made all the moves to signal that they are bailing on the season, which means it’s time to make more trades and rebuild the roster. In other news, the O.H.L. is looking into incidents involving the London Knights and fans after a game at Owen Sound last Saturday night, The Owen Sound Sun Times is reporting.

The standings are here, and the roundup is here. The schedule for Friday is as follows: Gatineau at Quebec, Moncton at Prince Edward Island, Rouyn-Noranda at Lewiston, Acadie-Bathurst at Chicoutimi, Cape Breton at Saint John, Shawinigan at Drummondville, Val-d’Or at Montreal. In league notes, Willy Pavlov of The Halifax Chronicle Herald writes that to teenagers currently playing in the A.H.L., Viatcheslav Voynov and Jason Demers, might return to the Q after the holidays.

Western Hockey League

The standings are here. There were no games scheduled on Thursday night. The schedule for Friday is as follows: Brandon at Regina, Red Deer at Prince Albert, Chilliwack at Edmonton, Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, Swift Current at Kelowna, Seattle at Spokane, Prince George at Portland, Medicine Hat at Everett.

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